Sentences with phrase «norms for women»

A South Korean news anchor defied her country's stringent beauty norms for women by deciding to ditch her contact lenses and false eyelashes, and wear glasses on air instead.

Although recent evidence suggests that alternative models of midwifery care are safe and cost - effective, and should be an option for all women [26], hospital based, consultant - led medicalised care continues to be the norm for women in Ireland.

Other members like Shanon, just simply enjoy the outdoors, and could care less what the social norm for women could be.

(While a week - old manicure is the norm for women in real - life, it's a dead giveaway for a self - destructive streak in the movies.)

As no state successfully secures women's human rights within its own jurisdiction, no state is motivated to «break ranks» 29 and confirm a human rights norm for women's status and treatment that no state thus far meets.

Not exact matches

A 2015 report from researchers at Kent State University and the University of Texas at Tyler found that the «prevalence of male norms in the male - dominated environment may result in a more hostile workplace for women who are perceived by men as violators of the gender norms.»

«The PC norm, by establishing a clear guideline for how to behave appropriately in mixed - sex groups, made both men and women more comfortable sharing their creative ideas.»

Though the gap has been slowly improving since the 1970s, experts estimate that equal pay for men and women won't be the norm until the year 2119.

The Wesleyans did not see the biblical injunctions against the ministry of women as providing a norm and pattern for all time.

I agree Ducatihero that it isn't wise for a man to visit a vulnerable woman alone in her own home, but it was the norm for ages.

We also wish warmly to affirm those sisters and brothers, already in membership with orthodox churches, who — while experiencing same - sex desires and feelings — nevertheless battle with the rest of us, in repentance and faith, for a lifestyle that affirms marriage [between a man and woman] and celibacy as the two given norms for sexual expression.

There can be no appeal to woman's experience or to contemporary psychological knowledge for norms by which to evaluate the Christian revelation.

But by understanding the moral norms in Israel and early Christianity as natural products of their times, we are able to look beyond them for indications of a higher, liberating view of women.

Christians wish to minister to these kids — by teaching them the norms about men and women, about sex and marriage, that have brought decency to the lives of ordinary people for millennia.

There are in India proverbs, teachings and cultural norms which are taught to a woman from childhood, preparing her for such a life of hardship and injustice.

For women and girls all over the world, the city of Wakanda represents a fictional world in which their intelligence, alongside their fierce beauty, is an accepted norm of society.

Unwittingly, by his assumptions, Freud reinforced the norms and values of a patriarchal culture in ways that have tended to increase its destructiveness for both women and men.

Internalizing the language, concepts and communicative norms of a particular field is crucial to the development of competencies in that field (see, for example, P. N. Johnson - Laird, Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness [Harvard University Press, 19831 and George Lakoff, Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind [University of Chicago Press, 1987]-RRB-.

For a long time slavery and oppressing women by having no say in the affairs of the country, was the norm.

During the recent controversy over whether Muslim women in Britain should wear the veil, Dr. Taj Hargey, chairman of the Muslim Educational Centre in Oxford, wrote «In contrast to a blind acceptance of specific 7th - century tribal Arabian dress and cultural norms, which have no eternal scriptural endorsement (as believers are required only to be modest), modern Muslims should revive the Islamic principle of ijtihadto interpret the faith for themselves.»

«The bottom line is this,» says University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox: «The erosion of the norm of premarital sexual abstinence, both in belief and behavior, has had serious emotional and physical consequences for our nation's teens ¯ especially young women.

Earliest Christianity began as a renewal movement within Judaism brought into being through Jesus.22 The examples of Jesus, his radical and revolutionary action against the Jewish social and religious norms, indeed became a challenge to women and for women in their ministry.23 His attitude to women is one that is radical particularly when viewed in the light of his historical context.

Furthermore, the liberation of men from patriarchal norms can be as enriching and significant for them as the liberation of women from those norms.

Cherry isn't calling for a restoration of first - century cultural norms, such as women covering their hair in worship, or a rigid dress code.

If the norm of the new humanity in Jesus Christ obliges us to question the Apostle's opinions about the proper status of women and the institution of human slavery, so also that norm obliges us to scrutinize each of his moral judgments regarding its Christian faithfulness for our time — including his perception of homosexuality.

Call it a God - given, inalienable, women's, maternal or whatever kind of «right» from whatever preferred source takes one's fancy - but for me, that right is very important and in this enlightened age ought to be considered the norm, as our very biology dictates, rather than something culturally questionable.

It would be equally important to think about how we could change employment laws and workplace norms so that it would be easier for men and women who want to balance work and family responsibilities to do so.

• Among employed men, fathers» use of parental leave is also strongly influenced by organizational culture, including their company's commitment to caring values, level of «father friendliness» and support for equal opportunities for women; and also the fathers» perceptions of support from top managers, and of work group norms that reward task performance vs. long hours at work (Haas et al, 2002).

I will strive for my daughter to grow up in a society where breastfeeding is perceived as the norm, where women breastfeeding in public aren't picked out as ostentatious, where feeding a child the way nature intended isn't only discussed in schools as part of sex education.

In many instances I risked the practice's and my own credibility, my license, and even my freedom because as a practitioner working outside the norm, I could face criminal charges for supporting a woman's individual rights when those decisions differ from the standard of care or from what the average jury member would choose for their own healthcare.

But we already know that answer: large scale surveys show us that cheating remains the norm for men (women are not much better).

Rather than placing the blame for unjust institutionalization on an oppressive patriarchy, the author points out that women were, and are, often complicit in the creation and social enforcement of oppressive social norms.

In Scotland, where wide variations in surgical deliveries have been found between units, four evidence based recommendations have been prioritised: clinicians and women should regard trial of labour as the norm after a previous caesarean; offering external cephalic version to women at term if their baby is breech; monitoring and regularly reviewing caesarean data with support for staff; and one to one midwifery care for all women in labour.20 The National Childbirth Trust — a UK parents organisation — is concerned about medicalisation and erosion of midwifery skills and confidence.

That means no nurses pushing formula, lactation support in the hospital, support for moms in the workplace, cultural norms that allow women to breastfeed in public places without being shamed, and more support among women for dealing with the challenges.

And while there are indeed some babies born to crack addicted women who are then placed for adoption... it is hardly the norm or the majority and even (some of, if not most of) those stories have happy endings.

For a woman to bear her babies before the age of 30 was the norm.

International experts from UN Women and NGOs like Promundo are doing important work to change harmful norms of gender and masculinity through parental leave and fathers» quotas policies and education programs for adolescent boys, respectively.

Andrea, what do you think are the main reasons, from your perspective, of why women continue to breast feed into toddlerhood, even when - for example, in western society in the United States, we're having a hard time with this - it's not necessarily the norm in our society, and they keep going.

A midwife cares for the woman during labour and birth referring to a doctor if there are any deviations from the norm or in the case of an emergency.

For example, Jewish women living in societies where uncovered breasts were the norm covered theirs.

Its vision is as follows: In order to achieve optimal health, enhance child development, promote knowledgeable and effective parenting, support women in breastfeeding, and make optimal use of resources, we envision breastfeeding as the norm for infant and child feeding throughout the nation.

Although hospital birth seems to be the most popular way to go, women have been giving birth at home for centuries, and it was only up until the last century or so that hospital birth became the norm.

When images and memes circulate demeaning women who don't breastfeed or didn't breastfeed long as not having tried hard enough, being lazy, giving their child poison, being unfit mothers, and deserving of guilt for falling short of the «best is breast» mandate or «biological norm» jargon, the connections we should have are torn down, not fortified.

Writing for Politics.co.uk on the subject of boardroom quotas, Bloom claimed that while some women can perform tasks suited to men «it is not the norm».

However, the general norm on female empathy could make it harder for women to openly express their selfish motives.

Dare Thompson, President of the League of Women Voters of New York State, said: «Corruption in state politics has been accepted as the norm for way too long.

Regardless of how Clinton or any woman sparks interest among women to run for office, the comfort Rivera says some have found with her may be the norm in the future.

«Using multiple substances — some legal, some illegal — alongside opioids is the norm, not the exception, for reproductive - age women,» said lead author Marian Jarlenski, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Pitt Public Health.

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This suggests that the ancient tendencies still exist but may be less influential than previously thought, because they are also reinforced by arbitrary social norms such as the convention that men usually approach women when there is potential for romance.